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A view of the River Niger. Photo used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: AFP At least 100 passengers, most of them women, were missing after a boat transporting them to a food market capsized along the River Niger in northern Nigeria, authorities said on Friday (November 29, 2024). The boat was taking the […]
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What is Nigeria’s cryptic pregnancy scam? BBC Africa Eye has investigated a disturbing fertility scam in Anambra State, Nigeria where desperate women are shelling hundreds of dollars for this treatment that gives desperate women false pregnancies. What constitutes this “cryptic” pregnancy? Women who come to these clinics are warned not to visit doctors or hospitals […]
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Kano State is one of 12 predominantly Muslim Nigerian states in which Islamic sharia is used alongside federal law. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: AP Islamic morality police in the northern Nigerian city of Kano are to resume their crackdown on betting shops after a supreme court ruling on gambling. The Nigerian supreme court quashed […]
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi being received by the Nigerian delegates upon his arrival at the airport, in Abuja, Nigeria on November 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Nigeria will confer Prime Minister Narendra Modi with its second-highest national award, the ‘Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger’, making him the second foreign dignitary to […]
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This September 8, 2024 picture shows flames and smoke billowing from a fuel tanker that exploded after colliding with a truck carrying passengers and cattle on a route in Niger state’s Agaie local government district. Videograb: Niger State Emergency Management Agency via AFP More than 90 people have been killed and 50 others injured after […]
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People cover the graves of victims recently buried, after a fuel tanker crashed and exploded, in Majia, Jigawa State, Nigeria, on October 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters More than 140 people, including children, were killed in Nigeria when an overturned gasoline tanker truck exploded in flames while they tried to scoop up fuel, emergency […]
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